MODE05

Notes for an Art School, the first publication of Manifesta 6 School Books was launched in Nicosia, Cyprus on Friday, 20 January 2006.

here is an article about a text by portugese choreographer Joao Fiadeiro published in mouvement.net on 06-10-05. it speaks very concretely about the cultural-political situation for performance arts in portugal, but a lot of the aspects he mentions are applicable to the european landscape.

As you may have realized when visiting our website, there has not been a continuous feeding-in of content. Before the start, the team had decided to first leave the text developments within an intranet before they get edited and mirrored onto the public site. In doing so, we would like to allow the materials to mature with time, so that they can develop a clear structure.

The Jazz and Musical Program of the Theaterschool in Amsterdam has started a new model of learning in dance this year.

"Instruction: Reducing intelligence" is written by Jan Ritsema for Sarai reader about Jacques Rancière and his efforts to a less destructive education

In reference to Pirkko's text about the potential of using weblogs within education I'd like to refer to an educational model I came across during the mode05 preparations and which I think is quite interesting - not just in its structure, but also in how internet technology is used to make a process of research and knowledge production transparent and useful for other people.

Since the beginning of the week, I have been trying out the wikis. It is great fun not only to fill them with content but moreover to find out about connecting the wiki pages among each other, creating a network of text. It seems to me that this network is already meaningful in itself, creating content... although I am not quite able to say yet in what way.